Adaptation of one of a series of low budget movies made by Stanley Kramer at Columbia. This one is about a shrink who goes to work at a prison. There’s some lame comedy about the crooks being colourful, a bit of drama with the shrink figuring out “the secret” of why one of them went bad, and a prison escape at the end which brings in some much needed excitement. It doesn’t really hit the mark – although based on a autobiographical novel it doesn’t feel true, and doesn’t really work as drama. Dana Andrews plays the shrink and I found it amusing to try and guess if he was drunk when performing this. Some guy called Millard Mitchell gets top billing as a crook – I hadn’t heard of him, so gave him a google; he was a regarded character actor who died in 1953.
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